Historical Figures

Hébert Jacques René (1757 - 1794)

Founder of Père Duchesne (1790), newspaper of extremist revolutionaries. Hébert contributed to the fall of royalty and then of the Girondins. With his supporters, the Hébertists (Chaumette, Chabot, Collot d'Herbois...), he had a great influence within the Cordeliers club and the insurrectionary Commune of Paris. He attacked the Enragés and Indulgent factions and organized the dechristianization of the country. Robespierre, whose moderation he had denounced, had him arrested and guillotined along with his supporters.


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